Kropotkin and the anarchist intellectual tradition / Jim Mac Laughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mac Laughlin, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1842-1921.

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich.

Anarchism--History.

Anarchism.

History.

Anarchists--Russia--Biography.

Anarchists.

Russia.

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni͡azʹ, 1842-1921.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

269 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Summary:

In a new examination of Peter Kropotkin's thought, this book rebuts the persistent misrepresentation of anarchism as a utopian creed or a recipe for social chaos and political disorder. Jim Mac Laughlin moves beyond previous accounts, providing a sustained and critical reading of Kropotkin's extensive writings on the social, historical, scientific, and philosophical basis of modern anarchism. The book examines key themes in Kropotkin's philosophy of anarchism, including his concerted efforts to provide anarchism with a historical and scientific basis; the role of mutualism and mutual aid in social evolution and natural history; the ethics of anarchism, and the anarchist critique of state-centred nationalism and other expressions of power politics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Anarchism Before Kropotkin 1

2 Kropotkin: The Education of an Anarchist 46

3 Kropotkin and the Legitimization of Anarchism 93

4 'Scientific Anarchism and Evolutionary Theory: Towards an Ontology of Anarchist Ethics and Altruism 142

5 Kropotkin's Anarchism and the Nineteenth-Century Geographical Imagination: Towards an Anarchist Political Geography 182.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780745335131

0745335136

1783717378

9781783717378

OCLC:

919482870

Publisher Number:

40025045098

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